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holmes

US/hoʊmz/US/hoʊlmz/UK/həʊmz/UK/həʊlmz/

noun

What it means

  1. no pluralslangAn informal term of address, like man or dude.

    Hey, holmes! What's up?

In a sentence

Hey, holmes! What's up?

Where it comes from

Possibly from homeboy + -s (hypocoristic suffix), with the spelling influenced by Sherlock Holmes.

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